A Beginners’ Guide to Digital Resources in Sanskrit
This is a guest post written by Udita Das. A few months back a friend of mine told me about…
Author: Rachael Griffiths
AABC – African Alphabets of the Bayreuth Cluster
This is a post by our guest contributors, Ulrich Rebstock and Marvin Müller The application AABC (African Alphabets of the…
The Digital Orientalist’s Recap of 2021
With a larger and more diverse editorial team, the Digital Orientalist has published 92 posts in total in the year…
Digitizing Cultural Heritage in Contemporary China: An Introduction to “Sinorelic”
What is Sinorelic? Sinorelic (华夏古迹图) is a Chinese-language online platform for collecting and sharing data about cultural heritage sites. Developed…
We Need a Better System: Streamlining Academic Digital Workflow from Reading to Writing
We are in an age of unprecedented information access. As academics in the humanities, we all have too much information…
Buddhist StudiesDH in GeneralDH in PracticeDigital CartographyDigitizationMongolian StudiesOnline ResourcesSoftwareVisualization
Reconstructing Kalmyk Buddhist Monasteries through Digital Modeling: An Interview with Simon Daisley from the Khurul Project
Introduction Simon Daisley is an independent researcher of Kalmyk Buddhism and a digital heritage practitioner based in New Zealand. Through…
Advancing on the encoding of Loma
As I noted in my first post for the Digital Orientalist in 2018, two 1943 Loma texts remain to be fully translated…
Mapping A Thousand Buddhist Monasteries in Mongolia: Introducing the Digital Database “Documentation of Mongolian Monasteries”
What is the Documentation of Mongolian Monasteries The Documentation of Mongolian Monasteries is an online database featuring more than a…
Building tools with Bété, Mende, and Kpelle users
While proposals for Unicode inclusion of the Bété and Kpelle scripts are being developed, there has been some interest on…
Typing in Tamil in contemporary and ancient scripts
Tamil is one of the twenty-two official languages spoken in India and its representation in writing dates back to the…